Crystal J

Mother's Helper: weekday afternoons/evenings & weekends

Family
in Vancouver

MOTHER'S HELPER:
Wanted immediately. Our friendly family is looking for an exceptional, helpful and efficient nanny that is excited to work with our family. You will help us keep our home in order and help us care for our three awesome, energetic and impressionable children, ages: 6, 4.5 and 2.
DUTIES:
In addition to helping with our kids, these are our other expectations:
- light housekeeping
- kitchen post meal clean up
- food and meal prep
- laundry
- errands
- personal assisting with home
- home organization
- driving/picking up kids to & from programs/school
NOTE: your weekends will be focused on mostly helping around the house: clean up, organization, prep. As parents, we want to maximize our time with our children on the weekends.
MUSTS:
Applications will NOT be considered without the following:
- must be currently living in Canada
- must have a valid Canadian work permit
- must be a non-smoker
- must have a valid drivers license and comfortable driving children
- must be committed to working weekends
- must have experience looking after young children
- must be perfectly fluent in English
- must be ok with payroll and CRA deductions
IDEAL CANDIDATE:
- You are a vigilant reducer, reuser, recycler and composter! You share our commitment to being enviormentally responsible.
- You equally understand and support our priority to eat organic and real foods!
- You like cooking as much as we love eating!
- You are excitable, energetic, patient and KIND! You have a supportive and encouraging tone with the kids. Ie: no rushed, abrupt or anxiety prone.
- You willing to take the kids OUTSIDE! You are not afraid of the elements and value the kids getting time to run around and explore outside as much as possible. Aka: screen time is used as a LAST resort.
- You know how to take stress away from our home environment by knowing when to jump in and help us, or when to make some space for us to enjoy our family time together.
You can anticipate what's needed next to assist us, for the home, etc. Ie: Are we out of milk?
- You can take initiative to help us keep our home organized, put together and decluttered without having to be asked. Ie: You notice those finger prints on the windows, spilled sauce on the counter, disorganized toys that need to be put away....
... Basically you have a cleaner and better organized home than most people you know!
- You dont mind picking things up and putting them away properly over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
- You are a tetris master you are someone who can effectively load a dishwasher!
- You are a team player by communicating and working well with our other home staff
- You get and use technology: WhatsApp, Google music, etc.
- If you also speak Spanish or French, that would be pretty darn awesome asset for the kids!
HOURS:
Approximately 30-35 hrs/week, ideally Thurs-Monday:
WEEKDAYS: 2-3 days/week approximately 2:30pm-8:30pm, Ideally: M/Th/Fri.
WEEKENDS: Saturday & Sunday: approximately 11am/noon-7/8pm
* Additional weeknights, if possible, when requested.
NOTE: we will require schedule flexibility, with notice. For example, when we have evening events, or when one parent is away, we will ask you to stay later to help out or switch days.
COMPENSATION:
Starting from $18-20/hr.
** We are definitely open to paying a higher hourly wage depending on your experience and capabilities, once a working probation period with us is complete.
We look forward to meeting you!
Crystal & Andrew
Please contact Crystal:
Email: ***@***
Phone: ###-###-####
(email: drcrystaljohns at gmail dot come)
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